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Naiyi Wang is a curator and researcher whose work concentrates on the juncture between ecology, technology, and expanded definitions of life and non-life from an intersectional perspective. She currently serves as director of Beijing Art and Technology Biennale (BATB), as well as co-founder of Fair of Art, Science & Technology (FAST), Shenzhen Art and Technology Biennale (SATB), and founder of MediumMedia®. She curated the inaugural Beijing Art and Technology Biennale (BATB) Synthetic Ecology (2022) and the second edition Earthwise (2024), which brings together more than 200 renowned artists and scientists from all over the world. She initiated Climate Care (2020–ongoing), an initiative dedicated to exploring the convergence of art, technology and climate change, while seeking to evoke action on the climate crisis in all its facets. She collaborated with World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) to curate WE ARE NATURE, which is programmed with the inaugural China Climate Action Week (2022).
She initiated an ongoing research project CARE in 2020, with first launch at London Design Biennale (LDB 2023), and then Guangzhou Design Triennial (GDT 2024), which manifests through Collective-care initiatives, ‘Care-full’ practices, as well as a Care Manifesto published by BAUHINIA in 2024. She co-curated Material Tales: The Life of Things (in collaboration with Design Museum London) in 2021. Prior to that, she curated/co-curated exhibitions at Hongkong-Macao Visual Art Biennale, 2nd Wuhan Biennale, 1st Guangzhou Design Triennial, 751 International Design Festival, 4th London Design Biennale, 4th Istanbul Design Biennial, London Design Festival, Milan Design Week, Beijing Art and Technology Biennale (BATB), Beijing Media Art Biennale (BMAB), Asia Digital Art Exhibition (ADAE), among many others.
She is co-author of Design Beyond the Human: Transdisciplinary Conversations About the Planet (edited by Elio Caccavale and Prof Gordon Hush), which will be published by Bloomsbury. Her recent translations include The Curatorial: A Philosophy of Curating (Beijing: China Pictorial Publishing House, 2021) and Wild Things: The Material Culture of Everyday Life (Nanjing: Phoenix Publishing & Media Group, 2023), etc.
She has been lecturing in MA Design Criticism & Curatorial Studies at Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) since 2017. She is a recipient of Sino-British Fellowship Trust and Design Trust Feature Grant.
